Origin: Latin suffix -al
Pontifical has 7 different meanings across 2 categories:
the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)
A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff.
proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
"papal dispensation"
denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops
puffed up with vanity
"a grandiloquent and boastful manner"
"overblown oratory"
"a pompous speech"
"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"
Of or pertaining to a pontiff.
Of or pertaining to a bishop; episcopal.